Critical thinking checklist

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Your point of view:weigh up the relevant research in the areafind effective reasons and evidence for your views reach conclusions on the basis of your reasoning illustrate your reasons with effective - critical thinking skills need to be understood and developed in the context of your subject discipline - check this out with your in touchwhile the checklist covers many skills, qualities and activities that can be involved in critical thinking, it does not attempt to be definitive.

Please email us if you think of further additions - or if you would like to add to the discussion of the nature of critical thinking above.

You may want to use this checklist to reflect on your current critical thinking ic enquiry is dynamic in nature - don't necessarily expect to 'wrap everything up' and reach water-tight ght © moira wilson 2009 all rights site | contact skills al thinking◄ previous: examples of the solent method next: more help ►critical thinking checklistto successfully think critically, you need to be able to:Question what you see, hear and te ideas, statements or for reasons or beyond in theories or concepts to explain and support an y why you think the way you al thinking summary (pdf opens in new window).

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Unported administrationbook administrationdownload as questions on this checklist designed as a guide to the process of reading academic texts critically and analytically.

You may like to print the checklist out for future ble version of the critical reading is the author's approach/perspective?

These critical questions are adapted from: journal of construction engineering and management, (1992), vol 18, ts and questions directed to unilearning@.